Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Dec 2016
Interview
First round phone interview with basic questions about my experience and a logic question. Second and final round interviews were on-site, 4 interviews an hour each with a short break in between. Simple coding problems just designed to see how you think, nothing to trip you up just take your time and think through it. Also asked some PM related questions from things on my resume
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Sídney) in Jul 2015
Interview
1 interview at my University followed by 4 interviews onsite. Each interviewer was very friendly. Questions were easy but all had extensions. I feel like the interviewers were judging more on personality during answering the questions than the questions themselves.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY)
Interview
I applied online. HR called me first and set up the phone interview. The position is related to deep learning and computer vision. after the interview for 1 week. I was rejected.